Gretna documentary secures sports TV nomination

THE company behind a TV documentary broadcast on BBC Scotland on Tuesday has been nominated for a sports TV prize in awards being run by the Royal Television Society.

Independent TV production company, Hand Pict Productions, has been nominated in the Nations and Regions Sports Programme category of the awards for a documentary about Gretna football club.

But it wasn’t its Gretna documentary transmitted on Tuesday that’s up for the award, but a previous one, broadcast a year ago.

The Edinburgh-based ‘indie’ is joined by Scottish sports presenter, Hazel Irvine, in the shortlist. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on the 29th of this month.

And as for its Gretna documentary on Tuesday – broadcast on BBC TWO Scotland, from 9pm to 10pm – it secured a 140,000-strong audience – in other words, a six per cent share of the available TV audience at the time; better than the network programme it displaced, Horizon.

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